Tags: Vaccines
Learn more about UNICEF’s work under the topic "Vaccines".
Routine Vaccines and COVID-19: What Parents Need to Know
How to safely get routine vaccinations for your child during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through pandemics and epidemics, hope stays alive
UNICEF has always stood by children through crisis and disease.
A Day in the Life: Vaccination in Mali
No child is too far for UNICEF staff - who are hard at work ensuring that every child has the right to routine immunizations, and good health.
No Child Too Far: Vaccinations in Rural Communities
Immunization is the key to ending vaccine-preventable child deaths and giving children a chance - and the right - to grow up healthy and reach their full potential. However, around the world, many children live in geographically remote areas, meaning that alternate solutions must be devised.
How Far Will Health Workers Go?
Vaccines can prevent disease outbreaks now and in the future. No child is too far for health workers to go, to ensure that every child in their community has the right to good health.
A Leading Voice: A Polio Survivor's Story
Safia Ibrahim contracted polio when she was a child living in Somalia. Although it dramatically changed her life, Safia has used her experiences to become a leading voice for vaccine advocacy, as well as the rights of children with disabilities.
Our Year in Review: 5 Stories of Success from 2019
In 2019, UNICEF reached almost all corners of the globe – 190 countries to be exact – to help save children’s lives. To celebrate the end of the year – and the end of a decade – we’ve chosen 5 stories from at home and abroad, to showcase how the tireless work of UNICEF staff and the generous support of our donors enables us to defend the right to childhood, for every child.
Top 6 Gifts that Give Back: A Last Minute Rescue Guide
The holidays are fast approaching, which means last-minute gift shoppers are urgently searching for that special something to give to friends, family or that special someone. In the spirit of the season, UNICEF Canada offers this holiday rescue guide; our top 6 meaningful gifts that will help children in need this season.
World Polio Day: Life as a Polio Survivor
Safia Ibrahim is a 37 year old Somali-born Canadian. When she was 1 years old, she contracted polio that rendered her unable to walk. For World Polio Day, Safia spoke with UNICEF Canada about the choice she never got to make but one that has impacted her entire life.
The undeniable power of vaccines
As Ukraine faces one of the world’s worst measles outbreaks, doctors and parents work together to dispel myths about vaccines.
